On Ted Gioia’s chart, it claimed “People binge on movies and TV shows, but… -> Ratings for the Oscars and other award shows have collapsed”. This is a very interesting observation. This is caused by multiple reasons. The first reason why these award shows are not getting the ratings they are looking for is because a lot of people think that they are extremely biased. This is a trend I have seen a lot recently where many people are claiming that these award shows are not giving the awards to the deserving movies, shows, or people. One big reason this year especially that they believe that the award shows are rigged was due to the fact that Margot Robbie did not receive an Oscar nomination for her phenomenal role in Barbie. This caused a lot of people to be upset and feel as if the award shows were rigged because her male co-star Ryan Gossling was nominated. This is just one example of why people are upset. They feel as if their movies or shows are not properly represented and that they are being “robbed” by the producers who seem to have an agenda. Another big reason for lower ratings is the younger generation. Generation Z is in the age of technology, this generation is has a extremely short attention span. This caused the generation to look for ways to find out information from a long program like award shows in different areas to stay up to speed but without having to watch the full show. An example of this is looking through tiktok or instagram for the outfits that certain celebrities are wearing, and who won. I am also guilty of doing this as well as only tuning in for certain people. During the Grammys I was only looking on tiktok and instagram to see what Taylor Swift was going to wear because I knew that it was going to be significant news. I also tuned into a live stream just to see her win her award since I had a feeling she may announce something (I definitely had what she announced wrong though). This is very common with our generation and big cause for the decline in ratings. The last reason that the ratings are declining is because since we are in the age of all of the streaming networks many people have left behind their regular TV services and have switched to only streaming services. These include Netflix and Hulu and so on. Since people are no longer keeping their regular TV networks they are no longer getting the channels required to watch these award shows. These trends are leading to a decline in award shows to possibly stop some of them completely. People are no longer wanting to watch these things, and it may be a good thing since most of the time it caused more drama than help.
-Kyra Thompson
